Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

I hate waiting around for results on Election Day and I’ll be live-blogging later on, so here’s a thread to discuss remedies for your anxiety.

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Will the Dems Make Big State Legislative Gains?

In the 2010 midterm elections, the Democrats lost a net of 702 state legislative seats across the country. That tied 1958, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Republican Party lost the same amount in a midterm election...

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The Republicans Have Broken the Senate

The fact that the White House and president have pursued a Senate-preserving political strategy at the expense of the House of Representatives has been a mainstay of my analysis over the last few months, and it is now common...

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Trump’s Bad Day in Court

The conservative assault on the federal courts has been very substantial during the first two years of Trump’s presidency but things have still not broken irrevocably. On Friday, the Supreme Court declined to intervene on...

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